CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Bell Wireless reported a five-year deal with L.M. Ericsson to provide GSM/GPRS and EDGE technology equipment for the carrier’s planned overlay of its legacy TDMA technology network.
The agreement calls for Ericsson to immediately begin installing EDGE-ready 1.9 GHz GSM/GPRS radio access equipment to complement Cincinnati Bell’s existing TDMA networks in Ohio and Kentucky.
Financial terms of the deal were not released.
Cincinnati Bell, which recently announced it served 464,000 subscribers at the end of the second quarter, signed a GSM/GPRS roaming agreement with network partner AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in April and said at that time it expected to have its GSM/GPRS network in the Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, markets operational by the fourth quarter of this year.
